(90 points) Are Enlightenment ideas still around today as a guiding force in current American society? How? (Please help) I am really trying to understand this. If you can add an explanation that would be helpful!

Explanation:

Louden holds that the ideals of the Enlightenment are still relevant for us today. He does not share the view so often repeated since the emergence of the idea of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century that these ideals are hopelessly optimistic, naïve and therefore shallow, if not dangerous.

the birthmark on georgiana's face alludes to the doctrine of "original sin," being tainted with evil from birth

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